New Owner, Insurance, Car tax, etc. Old Owner Car Tax Refund. Best Timing??????

AdrianC

binao said:

AdrianC said:

The vendor is refunded complete months as of the date of keeper change (and you'd be daft to do that any other way than online this year).

The buyer can tax it whenever they wish. If they tax it in the last two days of the month, they get the opportunity to have just over 12 calendar months, instead of just over 11.

Apart from the fact that we've all had over six years now to get used to this, even when tax discs were a thing, most used car purchases were of untaxed cars...

"and you'd be daft to do that any other way than online this year)."

Would online give an advantage other than speed?

Instant confirmation of change.

Apart from those, what other advantage do you want? A bouquet of flowers? 10% extra on the sale price?

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And the DVLA don't "lose" it and claim you didn't send it in, whilst issuing a huge fine

nottsphil

The most efficient way is to SORN the vehicle on the last day of the month. It can then be kept in a private parking space until any change of keeper/insurance has been submitted.
This ensures that the thieving DVLA don't get double tax for the calendar month in which the vehicle is sold, a sly scam made lucrative by the corrupt decision to invalidate tax sold with the vehicle.